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Moore MST AVID Students
Visit LeTourneau University
On Monday December
1st, the Moore AVID class ventured into an engineering wonderland.
The students toured LeTourneau University’s main campus in Longview, Texas.
Admissions counselor Christie Hammond greeted the students and gave them a
LeTourneau history lesson in the shadow of R.G. LeTourneau’s statue. When
Hammond told the students that R.G. had more patents than Thomas Edison, they
were amazed. LeTourneau sits on 162 acres of land that was purchased for one
dollar.
After touring the
impressive campus, the students enjoyed a buffet lunch with the admissions staff
and LeTourneau students. The engineering department’s hands-on projects were a
feast for the mind. The Mustangs were in awe as they probed and prodded a Baja
racer and Formula One car that the LeTourneau students built from scratch. LeTourneau
students compete in national races in the spring against public and other
private colleges.
The LEGS project
was the last stop on the tour, and it impacted the students the most.
Engineering students at LeTourneau have devised a process to build prosthetic
legs for less than 100 dollars. This is amazing since prostheses can cost
anywhere from 10 to 40 thousand dollars. The LeTourneau students travel to
countries like Kenya and Bangladesh and teach residents how to make the limbs
out of materials native to their country. Our tour guide emphasized
LeTourneau’s commitment to hands-on education for students.
Conversations on the bus back
to Moore reflected the student’s excitement about the possibility of future
careers.
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